ALLMedicine™ Delirium Center

May 8th, 2021 - It is well recognised that acute confusion or delirium complicates up to 10% of acute medical admissions. Disorientation in time and place with an impaired short-term memory and conscious level are the hallmarks of an acute confusion. In delirium,...

May 8th, 2021 - Hip fracture patients often display an acute confusional state (delirium) which is associated with worse outcomes. In this observational study, we found that co-management of hip fracture patients by a multidisciplinary team including a geriatrici...

May 7th, 2021 - Nurses caring for intensive care patients diagnosed with an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) conduct frequent neurological assessments and vital signs over an extended period during which patients are at risk of vasospasm. The frequency o...

May 6th, 2021 - Excited delirium: what's the evidence for its use in medicine?|2021|Rimmer A,|

May 6th, 2021 - The Conundrum of Pain, Opiate Use and Delirium: Analgosedation or Analgesia-first Approach?|2021|Hayhurst CJ,Hughes CG,Pandharipande PP,|

Jan 8th, 2021 - Delirium and postoperative neurocognitive disorder are the commonest perioperative complications in patients more than 65 yr of age. However, data suggest that we often fail to screen patients for preoperative cognitive impairment, to warn patient...

May 5th, 2019 - Acute changes in mental status represent a broad collection of symptoms used to describe disorders in mentation and level of arousal, including the more narrowly defined diagnoses of delirium and psychosis. A wide range of precipitating factors ma...

Jan 21st, 2019 - The Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS), which may occur with or without delirium, is a frequent consequence of sudden alcohol cessation in patients with moderate to severe Alcohol Dependence Syndrome (ADS). Withdrawal as a result of habituation to ...

Sep 30th, 2018 - Delirium in adult cancer patients: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines.|2018|Bush SH,Lawlor PG,Ryan K,Centeno C,Lucchesi M,|diagnosis,epidemiology,therapy,standards,diagnosis,epidemiology,therapy,standards,

Sep 6th, 2018 - The chronic use of alcohol can lead to the onset of an alcohol use disorder (AUD). About 50% of subjects with an AUD may develop alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) when they reduce or discontinue their alcohol consumption and, in 3-5% of them, conv...

May 8th, 2021 - It is well recognised that acute confusion or delirium complicates up to 10% of acute medical admissions. Disorientation in time and place with an impaired short-term memory and conscious level are the hallmarks of an acute confusion. In delirium,...

May 8th, 2021 - Hip fracture patients often display an acute confusional state (delirium) which is associated with worse outcomes. In this observational study, we found that co-management of hip fracture patients by a multidisciplinary team including a geriatrici...

May 7th, 2021 - Nurses caring for intensive care patients diagnosed with an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) conduct frequent neurological assessments and vital signs over an extended period during which patients are at risk of vasospasm. The frequency o...

May 6th, 2021 - Excited delirium: what's the evidence for its use in medicine?|2021|Rimmer A,|

May 6th, 2021 - The Conundrum of Pain, Opiate Use and Delirium: Analgosedation or Analgesia-first Approach?|2021|Hayhurst CJ,Hughes CG,Pandharipande PP,|

Mar 28th, 2021 - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced new guidelines on the management of people in the community with COVID-19, as part of a new suite of COVID-19 guidelines. This replaces the previous sets of rapid guidance. ...

Mar 28th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Administration of intranasal insulin before gastrointestinal surgery helps protect against postoperative delirium in elderly patients, according to a randomized controlled trial conducted in China. Mounting evidence sug...

Mar 15th, 2021 - Older adults with COVID-19 are at increased risk for poor outcomes, including hospitalization, respiratory failure, and in-hospital death. Because this is a novel illness, we are still discerning whether factors known to predict poor outcomes in o...

Mar 7th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Clinicians have noted a high rate of delirium in COVID-19 patients in intensive-care units (ICUs) during the pandemic, which could be due to the use of heavy sedatives and safety protocols that limit family visitation. ...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Delirium occurred in nearly 1-in-10 elderly patients after percutaneous mitral and tricuspid valve repair and signaled longer hospital stays and worse survival, a new study shows. Mortality was nearly fourfold higher at 6 months among patients wit...